UK Charts: Mafia II Puts the Muscle on Kane & Lynch
Mafia II (X360) Dog Days slips as the Cosa Nostra roll into town.
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Saling The World: Metroid: Other M Tops Domestic Charts
Gamasutra’s weekly column, “Saling The World”, covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week’s charts, with data taken from September 2nd, 2010, find Nintendo’s Metroid: Other M heading multiplatform software sales in North America, while Capcom’s Monster Hunter spinoff MonHun …
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News// UK Software Charts: Mafia II Makes an Offer You Can’t Refuse
(31 Aug 2010) Gangster sequel grabs Number 1 spot.
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by Patrick Haney

Xbox Live Takes Online Gaming To New Heights

Online MMOs and RPGs like World of Warcraft and Warhammer have taken the world by storm, and now the Xbox 360 is offering gamers a new way to connect to the online community with Xbox Live. With Xbox Live gamers of the world unite on their couches to battle demons, race cars and fight bad guys, sharing the fun of online gaming without having to give up the fun of their favorite Xbox.

To thoroughly enjoy the full Xbox Live experience, the only thing Xbox fans need are an Xbox 360 and a high speed internet connection. Gamers simply connect their Xbox to their modem and they have instant access to hundreds of games and free demos, as well as a global community of players just like them with whom to share the excitement and thrill of ultimate destruction from the comfort of their living room.  Read more...

Xbox Live price hike set for November
Xbox Live members will face higher fees starting this fall – and predictably, not everyone is impressed.
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Xbox Live to Cut Deeper Into Wallets
The Xbox Live director of programming at Microsoft announced on his blog that the company will jack up the subscription prices for Xbox Live Gold.
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Xbox Live Subscriptions Made Simple

Are you looking into Xbox Live subscriptions but slightly confused by the multitude of choices people are throwing at you? It should be simple, right? You sign on the dotted line, give someone your credit card information, and the next thing you know you’re knee deep in the wide international community of gamers and Xbox fans that make up the Xbox Live community. You never knew you were going to need a dictionary to wade through all of your choices.

Here’s a quick look at the options that are available to you as a new member of Xbox Live:

1) Silver membership. Anyone who purchases Xbox Live subscriptions first has to be a silver member. Silver membership is an orientation into the world of Xbox Live. When you sign up for a silver membership you’ll be able to create an avatar to represent yourself online, chat with people all over the world, create a profile showing your gaming prowess and download games and movies from the Xbox Live Arcade and/or Marketplace.  Read more...